For those who follow me on Twitter, or are personal friends, you know that as of January 30, 2009, my husband Mark has been unemployed. This was really a planned unemployment as he worked for Chrysler and took a buy-out and chose to leave. Things are not looking good for Chrysler, particularly their Fenton, Missouri truck plant where Mark worked. So we opted to leave on our timing and not sitting around on pins and needles amidst the drama waiting for the axe to fall, so to speak.

So it’s been 2 weeks since he’s been off work. After getting some health testing out of the way that was long overdue, he’s kicking into high gear on what he’s going to do next to earn a living. We have some cushion money to last us a few months, but would prefer not to use that money and instead have been praying about a career for him.

Mark’s first love is audio/visual technology. That was the field he worked in for many years prior to his move to Chrysler. He went to Chrysler as the pay and benefits were much better than what he was making in the audio/visual field at that time. That said, even though he would love to get back into audio/visual work, he is open to other options.

Today he was searching Google for plumbing jobs (thinking this might be something he would also like), and entered a pay range for that; and within the returned listings for plumbing jobs: up pops an AUDIO/VISUAL position in St Louis and even above the pay range he and entered!! Now I don’t know about you, but we believe that to be God interceding! First thing tomorrow, he’s applying for that job. And get this, the place hiring is a place he has done audio/visual work for when he was A/V manager at another company! So they have already worked with him in the past!

I’m so excited at this new job prospect for Mark. It’s really what he’s gifted in doing, and would love to do. He has still been doing audio/visual work as the sound engineer for our church, even helping with some recordings, concerts held at our church and other similar events. He knows his stuff!

So please pray that if this is God’s will, that Mark will get this job. I’ll keep ya posted.

I have seen a lot of weird things in my life from bizarre to sinful and most things in between. But today I learn that if you happened to have ‘hooked up’ (aka: slept with) someone and you could have exposed that person to a sexually transmitted disease, you can just send the person an e-card to let them know!

Yeah, that’s what I said. Ok, first of all – as a Christian woman, I believe that waiting for marriage before one engages in sexual activity of any type is the best course of action to take (God thinks so too): also safer with no chance of catching anything. This goes both ways for the man and the woman: both wait = safe sex with no risk of disease. Makes perfect sense (not to mention it will virtually eliminate the teen pregnancy and unwed mother issue).

To choose to have sex with someone, and to not even ask what their sexual history is, like do they  have any sexually transmitted diseases (STD), is irresponsible, and illegal too, if you knowingly have HIV and do not disclose that to your intended partner.

But to go forth and have sex with someone you obviously barely know, then to send them an e-mail notification that you may have infected them with an STD, is about the most irresponsible, cold and insane idea ever thought of. Seriously – who in the world thought this was a brilliant plan?!  Well apparently it was the ‘brain child’ (more focused on child than brain) of Internet Sexuality Information Services, a non-profit agency located in California.

What in the world has become of our society where we have come down to this. I am shocked, sickened and concerned for all those who see this e-card idea as a good thing. We need to be promoting abstinence, not e-card notifications! This idea just adds fuel to the fire of irresponsible sexual activity and behavior.

If you’re going to be irresponsible enough to have casual sex with someone, and could have infected them with a STD, buck up and do the right thing and tell them in person. If you can’t do that, then God help you.